Blow up beds in couch

DutchmenSport wrote:
The blow-up bed on my Outback couch is awful! The couch itself (folded out to a bed) is too short and the both ends of the blow up mattress overhang the support. It works OK for two small children (my grand daughters slept on it, and worked great for them). But my wife and I tried it and we both hated it. The support under the mattress is uneven also. Feet end is higher than the head end with a big bump in the middle.

NOW.... when we put the blow up mattress on the floor, it was pretty good! But the couch as a bed .. absolutely stinks. It's great for a couch, but not a bed!

VERY NICE trailer! I just received my third air mattress on warranty in 1.5 years. Pure junk!

Illini wrote:
We are considering buying a new travel trailer. We have heard the blow up beds in the couches are not any good. If you have one what are your thoughts? I would appreciate any comments.

We love ours in our new Windjammer. Big improvement over the old jack knife sofa. Sets up in about 60 seconds with the built in electric pump.

Our Monaco Diplomat came with a Flexsteel sofa that had an inflatable mattress that was mated to a foam mattress. When inflated, it was hard to tell that it wasn't an innerspring mattress. It was extremely comfortable. The material cover was very sturdy and prevented the mattress from pinching when it folded up.

The mattress was inflated by a small round blower that quick connected to the foot of the bed and inflated in seconds. A large door opened up for deflation. I would order one of these again in an RV.

We have an inflatable bed in our Fuzion and it is head and shoulders better than any of the fold out sofa beds we've come across. It has a electric pump for inflation and deflation, only takes a couple of minutes to put up or take down.

Part of the mattress fits over the seat part of the sofa and is held in place by Velcro. The rest of the mattress sticks out 90° from the sofa and is plenty long for most people. If you're over 6 and 1/2 feet tall your feet may hang over the edge. :)

4 years and quite a bit of use, most by kids, and no leaks.

Yust remember to deflate the inflatable mattres when going over high elevation passes so that it will really not blow up.

navegator

Inflatable beds have always been unique to use and have their own problems. We used inflatable tent beds for many years back in the day. These air mattresses would slip into the portable bed frames and make a real nice queen size sleeping bed up off the tent floors. All would fold up into a neat roll around tote on wheels.

The biggest problem we would have was always with the changing temperatures and resulting air pressures. We would start out the evening with a real nice firm inflated bed bed and usually around 3-4AM the outside air pressure would drastically change resulting in us sinking into the once very firm inflatable bed.

I'm sure those built-in problems still exist.

We spent many of very comfortable tent bed camping nights back in the 60s and 70s using the inflatable mattresses....

Roy Ken

The blow-up bed on my Outback couch is awful! The couch itself (folded out to a bed) is too short and the both ends of the blow up mattress overhang the support. It works OK for two small children (my grand daughters slept on it, and worked great for them). But my wife and I tried it and we both hated it. The support under the mattress is uneven also. Feet end is higher than the head end with a big bump in the middle.

NOW.... when we put the blow up mattress on the floor, it was pretty good! But the couch as a bed .. absolutely stinks. It's great for a couch, but not a bed!

Blow up beds may be good for terrorist, so be careful. You may be more interested in inflatable beds. On the forums, all you hear are the negative things. I think they are a decent idea, but they can get punctured. I prefer a tri fold bed, if available, and use a decent memory foam topper. But, if the choices were a bi fold bed or an inflatable, I would pick the inflatable.

We have one and are quite happy with it. For added comfort we put on a topper and people who have slept on it say it is quite comfortable.